New inventions and directions for ruptured persons : teaching them the art of effectually keeping up inguinal and scrotal ruptures / by W.H.T. Esq. ; to which is prefixed a recommendatory letter by William Blair.

  • Timbrel, William Hall.
Date:
1802
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: New inventions and directions for ruptured persons : teaching them the art of effectually keeping up inguinal and scrotal ruptures / by W.H.T. Esq. ; to which is prefixed a recommendatory letter by William Blair. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

    33/94 (page 31)
    Any truss, (constru6led contrary to the above directions), will fail of keeping up a Rupture with certainty. The double-tongued buckle is to be placed on the pad, in such a manner, as to have effeft; the cross front strap should be lined and edged, which adds to its power. In all and every part of the truss, in its sewing, its straps, its appendages, observe only one idea, and execute it: let there be ACTION, and materials of the best quality. The dangers of a circular steel spring have been mentioned: a truss cannot have proper effe6l without a steel spring; it is not the spring, but the hard part of the pad of the truss that is dangerous, and has ruined many a man*. The ^ There are cases, in which, I think, a sieel spring cannot be used without danger; but those cases. I be- lieve, exist only in infants or very young persons, whose bones are soft, and the body in a rapid state of increasing bulk from growth.—In these cases it is highly desirable to try the effeft of a leathern girdle with the pad, as usual;